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French novelist Michel Houellebecq isn't exactly known for writing cheeful, uplifting, feel-good stories. In novels like The Elementary Particles, Houellebecq showed a perverse [...]

At his worst, Ray Bradbury's science fiction tales seem somewhat dated when read through 21st century eyes. For my tastes, at least, the [...]

When V.S. Naipaul received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2001, he delivered a speech called "Two Worlds." It was an appropriate title [...]

It doesn't take a genius to figure out that there are a few problems with the unrestrained, extremist capitalism promoted by our current [...]

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When I first moved to New Mexico several years ago, the first thing I did was search out a decent history of Albuquerque. [...]

Felicia Luna Lemus' debut novel, Trace Elements of Random Tea Parties, is so very L.A. The lead character, Leticia, is a lesbian film [...]

It's a law of nature: As the world changes, our use of language changes right along with it. With the dramatic technological and [...]

I've got this fantasy that every man, woman and child walking the face of the earth carries around one perfect book inside them. [...]